Gordon Sondland Quotes

The far more likely Trump scenario is this: Chinese leaders realize they no longer have a weak leader in the White House; China ceases its unfair trade practices. America's massive trade deficit with China comes peacefully and prosperously back into balance, and both the U.S. and Chinese economies benefit from trade.

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

All the U.S. is asking for is free, fair trade.

Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.

The countries we are defending are stealing our markets.

The British government should use every kind of cheating that other governments use to promote their products.

American policymakers have a choice to make in trade relations with China. They can side with the importers and outsourcers, and stand by passively as China takes advantage of its WTO membership and access to the U.S. market, abusing its own workers and artificially undervaluing its currency in order to undercut American workers and domestic manufacturers. Or they can take a stand for American jobs and act now to ensure that China plays fair in the global economy.

We all know that China is not a free trader. That's the reality.

How does allowing China to constantly rig trade in its favor advance the core conservative goal of making markets more efficient?

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

Unfair foreign trade practices are not isolated acts.

Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports.

China can be our partner, but that doesn't mean that they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis.

We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing.

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

We seek to better integrate Brazil into the world... and eliminate unfair trade practices and uncertainty for foreign trade flows.

I think it's really important that we have a level playing field for global trade.

Unfair trade practices should be regulated because they're unfair.

We will trade freely with free nations and not spend our time chasing trade deals with predatory countries like communist China.